LE TEMPS ET L’APPRENTISSAGE SCOLAIRE LE POTENTIEL DE VARIABILITÉ DU TEMPS ALLOUÉ PAR LES ÉLÈVES PAR CATÉGORIES D’ACTIVITÉS

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Time and School learning. The variability of the time students allocate to different categories of activities. The present paper approaches time as being a school learning resource. Time is basically a limited resource and learning is not the only students’ time-consuming activity. School learning is an activity that competes with other student’s activities, so a rational management of the student’s learning time is not possible without knowing the real way the students’ available time is distributed according to the curricular and extracurricular activities. Starting from this premise, following data gathered from students and teachers, the specific aim of our investigation in the present paper is to reconstruct the actual way in which students distribute their daily and weekly available time and to identify the contexts in which school learning competes with other activities for the same common and limited resource: time. At the end of the study we propose the “potential of variability of the time spent by students according to different categories of activities” factor as part of a rational management of the time required for learning, in the context of a rational distribution of the global time according to the curricular and extracurricular activities conducted by students.

Keywords

• students
• school programme
• time as a learnin resource
• working time
• free time
• sleeping time
• the potential of variability of the time spent by students according to different categories of activities
• time management